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Holland & Knight will partner with Fordham Graduate Business School to establish and sponsor the Fordham Institute for Family & Private Enterprise.
The new Institute is the first university-based center devoted to assisting family-owned businesses located in the New York City area achieve their business goals through educational seminars,...

The firm of Thompson & Knight LLP has announced that partner and Chief Diversity Officer Pauline E. Higgins has been named president of the Association of Law Firm Diversity Professionals (ALFDP).
The ALFDP was established in 2006, and Ms. Higgins will serve a term of two years.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has named TRC's (NYSE: TRR) Energy Services division as a 2008 ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year for outstanding energy management and reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. TRC's accomplishments were recognized at an awards ceremony in Washington, DC on April 1, 2008.

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Chadbourne & Parke has launched a Green Initiative that focuses on recycling and reductions in energy and resource consumption.
The Firm has been certified as a "Leader" in the ABA-EPA Law Office Climate Challenge, a joint project of the American Bar Association and the Environmental Protection Agency.The Climate Challenge Program encourages law...

Edward R. Levin and Gary L. Lieber, partners in Saul Ewing's Labor, Employment and Employee Benefits Practice Group, have been recognized as Washington, DC Super Lawyers by Law & Politics magazine.
The Super Lawyers list honors the top five percent of the lawyers in Washington, DC based on surveys with lawyers throughout the DC area and...

David T. Harmon and Charles A. Bruder, co-chairs of the Norris McLaughlin & Marcus, P.A. Executive Compensation & Employee Benefits Group, have co-authored "Perspectives for Management and Executives on Structuring and Negotiating the Package: It's Not Just About the Dollars," a chapter of a book titled Inside the Minds: Employee Benefits and...

Goodwin Procter announced today that Kenneth J. Parsigian, a partner in the firm's Litigation Department, received the Boston University Law 2008 Pro Bono Alumni Award.Parsigian was honored for his dedication to pro bono work and for his success in obtaining freedom for Kenneth Richey, a Scotsman who spent the past two decades on death row.

King & Spalding has announced the continued expansion of its Middle East practice with the addition of a partner and two counsel to its offices in Riyadh and Dubai. The addition of these three senior practitioners to the firm's Middle East team brings the total number of King & Spalding lawyers on the ground in its Riyadh and Dubai offices to 18,...

Holland & Knight LLP has announced that Charles Welch Tiedemann, a real estate partner in the firm's Washington, DC, office, has been elected to its Directors Committee for a three-year term.
The Directors Committee, made up of 24 Holland & Knight partners located in offices throughout the country, is the policy-making body of the firm. The...

Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP will be honored for its commitment to pro bono work by the Northside Center for Child Development.Founded in 1946 by Drs. Kenneth and Mamie Clark, the first and second African-Americans to receive doctorates in psychology from Columbia University, the Northside Center provides a full range of hands-on services to...

In a major, legal victory in an action, Tafas v. USPTO and Dudas,brought by plaintiffs, independent inventor Dr. Triantafyllos Tafas and Glaxo Smithkline Beecham (GSK), the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia on April 1, 2008 ruled that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office ("USPTO") new claims and continuations rules are invalid.

The law firm of Thompson & Knight LLP has announced that John H. Martin has been inducted as a Fellow of the International Academy of Trial Lawyers (IATL).
Mr. Martin is a partner in the Trial Practice Group of Thompson & Knight's Dallas office. He is widely recognized for his legal work and public speaking on the subjects of catastrophic...

Stradley Ronon Managing Partner Jeff Lutsky was appointed to the board of directors for the Philadelphia and Vicinity YMCA. He will participate in a number of activities aimed at advancing the mission of the YMCA to improve the community and its families.
As Stradley Ronon's managing partner, Mr. Lutsky manages more than 180 attorneys in seven offices...

Cozen O'Connor has announced that Scott W. Reid has been named the chair of the firm's diversity committee. In this position, Mr. Reid will direct Cozen's initiatives aimed at the retention and recruitment of lawyers with a wide range of backgrounds and experiences as a part of the firm's ongoing commitment to foster diversity.
Mr. Reid joined the firm...

Litigators know an expert witness can make a trial or break it. The role of experts in a case is critical to influencing judges, juries and trial outcomes. Now litigators have a new resource for using expert witnesses to take ultimate advantage of new rules, procedures and strategies for handling experts in civil trials - Thomson West's Expert Witnesses in...

Kenneth M. Jarin, a partner in the Labor, Employment & Immigration Group at Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, LLP, served as a guest speaker to a law class at Temple University's Master of Laws Program in Beijing, China.

Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, LLP, is pleased to recognize Partner Edwin J. Harron and Associate Monté T. Squire for providing exemplary pro bono legal service to the community and the bar. The attorneys are this year's recipients of the H. James Conaway Jr. and William F. Taylor Pro Bono Awards.
Each year, Young Conaway honors two attorneys...

Protiviti Inc., a leading global provider of internal audit and risk and advisory services, has released the fourth edition of its resource guide about Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act - Guide to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act: Internal Control Reporting Requirements. The guide answers 258 frequently asked questions about Section 404 and other related topics...

The Final Report in the bankruptcy proceedings of subprime loan specialist New Century Financial Corp, filed by Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP (K&L Gates) partner and court-approved Examiner Michael J. Missal on February 29, 2008, was unsealed by the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware. Concluding an eight-...

Stradley Ronon attorney Frances Gauthier co-incorporated the Delaware Hispanic Bar Association, the first professional association in Delaware for Hispanic attorneys. The association was formed to promote the social, economic, professional and educational advancement of the Hispanic community in the state. Ms. Gauthier is a founding board member and vice...

King & Spalding has announced that it has established an office in Silicon Valley and will open a second California office in San Francisco. The offices will focus initially on the firm's strengths in intellectual property, FDA/healthcare, tort litigation, private equity, real estate capital markets, government and internal investigations, business...